psych 307
Terms
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- what is culture?
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2) any kind of inoformation that is acquired form outher members of one speicies through social leanring that is capable of affecting a indivudals behvoir
3) descriptive definations
refers to all social activites in the broadest sense such as language marrage and proerpty system.
4) historical defintions
refer to a groups social heratige or tadiotns
emaphsis - making refersnce ot culture beign passsed down form generation to generation
5) normative def
refer to rules that govern behvoir, pattersn for liviingl... the indiviudals role in unending lkiedsaope of life siations of ever kind of rules and models for attidtue and coduct in them
6) psychological defintions
refer to the learning processes developmental pattners and problem solving group.
7) structuraul deifntions
inter realted organizational elements of a group, a culture consists of inventions or cultural traits integrated into a system
8) non genetic defintions
refer to shared charactersitics that are not genetic in thier orgiins.
9) functional nationality defintion
fluid nature cross boarder cultures, speical groups french aborginals - what is cultural psychology
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is concerned with identifyign the links between culture and psychological processes of peopel exposed to that culture
doest not adopt a unversalists position but mainatians a relativsit view, beleive that the mind and culture are inextricably intertwined. one shapes the outher and vice vesera.
vs general psychology view
cpu in differant contexts view -
berrry models
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ecological contests
sociopoltical context - berrys model to what is culuture
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ecologogical context: soil conditons in which a socieity lives
socio poltical
relative power, history wealth resource distirbution in realtion to its neibors
processes that must be transmitted to the indiviudal
ecological influences
features of the enviorment that limit or enable a given society to thrive
genetic transmission
resistane form malaria
cultural transmission
develope a heirachal leader convesion to an ecolgoical context that free people form having a farm food.
acculturation
specific to societies that learn to blend with eachouther chagn ein realtion to one and expsoed to ideas realted to culture.
chines vernacular from mongols - multi cultural psychology
- invovles the study of inviduals living n sociites in which groups co exits no cultural psych
- ethnic minority psychology
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invovles the study of individual swho form ethnic minority of gorups within a soceity
not cultuarl psychology - transcultural psychatiriy
- abnormal psych across differant groups.
- what methods do cultural psychologists use.
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decutive - theory - hypothesis , research observation
inductive research generates new theories
research observations hypothesis theory
1) data or narrative qualtiative research
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- what reserach methods do cultural psycholgists use
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. Deductive research tests pre-existing theories
o TheoryHypothesesresearchObservations
⬢ 2. Inductive research generates new theories
o ResearchObservationsHypotheses Theory
qualtiative research
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- what reserach methods do psychogists use
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. Deductive research tests pre-existing theories
o TheoryHypothesesresearchObservations
⬢ 2. Inductive research generates new theories
o ResearchObservationsHypotheses Theory
qaulititive research
methods include feild observations, unstructured interiviews focus groups and anlysis written texts an folk tales
rich descriptive infomration
qauntative reserach
data numerica in nature
summary statistics
methods include experimental studies, quasi experimental designs and correaltional studies
qauzi experiments
lack random assignment hence contrasting two differant cultural gorups on a depndent varible, we are assumign that differances have to do with cutlural membership , cannot assuem causality
- what unique methodological challenges do cultural psycholgists encounter and how do they fixed them.
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1) translation problems
develop questions that are most assessable to translation
- - what unique methodological challanges do cultural psycholgoical encounter?
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develope questions that are most asssesable to translation
use short senstance
billingual technique
billingual particpants complete both versions of the measure.
the back translation tecnqiue
after orignal material have been translated into the target lnaguage , anouther billingual indivual indepndanlty translated materials back into the orignal langague
concept of methodological equivalence
having one methods perceived in idenital ways, idustiralized vers not doesnt really work
unversity students bias
less power industralization veres industlraization
moderacy extermety bias
tendency for peopel from different cultures to vary in terms how likley they were to express their agreemtn in a mdierate fasion or extreme fasion
east asins tend to be more moderate
solutions
no middle asnwer
standeradizing data,
however means you can only compare patterns in resonces rather than average resonces across cultures
acquisence bias
people difffer to the extent to which they tend to agree with statments they encounter
solution reverse scoring
east asians tend to have holistic apporach see many possible truths
reference group effect
chinese verses denamark
solution
avoid subjective measures
conctrete measures , i got o the bathroom twice a day
deprivation effects
peopel value personal saftey only when personal saftey is at risk
cross cultural experiemnts
in cross cultural studies one improant indepdnant varible ones cultural background cannot be manipulated
cultural experiemtns are qausi expeirments, cannot detemrine causality
within
betwen (protected from all thsoe responce basies
order effects